John 12:48
◄  John 12:48  ►
New International Version (©2011)
There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But all who reject me and my message will be judged on the day of judgment by the truth I have spoken.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The one who rejects Me and doesn't accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The one who rejects me and doesn't receive my words has something to judge him: The word that I've spoken will judge him on the last day,

NET Bible (©2006)
The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“Whoever rejects me and does not receive my words has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Those who reject me by not accepting what I say have a judge appointed for them. The words that I have spoken will judge them on the last day.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

American King James Version
He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

American Standard Version
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that despiseth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Darby Bible Translation
He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.

English Revised Version
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Webster's Bible Translation
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Weymouth New Testament
He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

World English Bible
He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

Young's Literal Translation
'He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:44-50 Our Lord publicly proclaimed, that every one who believed on him, as his true disciple, did not believe on him only, but on the Father who sent him. Beholding in Jesus the glory of the Father, we learn to obey, love, and trust in him. By daily looking to Him, who came a Light into the world, we are more and more freed from the darkness of ignorance, error, sin, and misery; we learn that the command of God our Saviour is everlasting life. But the same word will seal the condemnation of all who despise it, or neglect it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 48. - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings (ῤήματα), hath one that judgeth him - perhaps, that which judgeth him - the word (λόγος) which I spake, that will judge him at the last day. There is no more awful utterance than this (romp. 1 John 4:17; 2 Corinthians 5:10, where the irresistible power of a searching inviolable Law is vindicated). How strange that some critics should, with a view to disparage the authenticity of the Gospel, make it appear that there is no reference in it to judgment to come, or to the last day, and should deliberately ignore this feature of the Johannine Gospel!

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He that rejecteth me,.... As the Messiah, with abhorrence and contempt, as many among the Jews did, who would not have him to reign over them, but sought to put him to death:

and receiveth not my words; the doctrines of the Gospel, but disbelieves them, and denies them to be true, looking upon them as the doctrines of a mere man, and an impostor:

hath one that judgeth him; let not such an one think that he shall escape righteous judgment; though Christ does not judge him now, there is one that judges him, yea, even now; and declares, that he that believeth not shall be damned, and that he is condemned already:

the word that I have spoken unto you, the same shall judge him in the last day; according to the different dispensations wicked men are under in this world, will be the rule of their judgment hereafter: such who are only under the law of nature, will be judged according to that, that will accuse them, convict them, and condemn them: such who have been under the law of Moses, or the written law, will be arraigned, proved, and pronounced guilty, and punished by, and according to that law; and such who have been under the Gospel dispensation, and have been favoured with the revelation of the Gospel, but have condemned and denied it, that will judge them at the last day. The judge will act by its present declaration, and according to that proceed, as it stands in Mark 16:16. It will rise up in judgment against such persons, and be an aggravation of their condemnation.

John 12:48 Parallel Commentaries

John 12:48 NIV
John 12:48 NLT
John 12:48 ESV
John 12:48 NASB
John 12:48 KJV

Bible Hub: Online Parallel Bible


Some Believe in Jesus
…47And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 49For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.
Matthew 10:15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Luke 10:16 "Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
John 5:45 "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.
John 6:39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
John 8:47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
Acts 17:31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead."
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 10:25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
1 Peter 1:5 who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
2 Peter 3:3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
2 Peter 3:7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.